Institute Calendar
Spring 2015-2016
Saturday, April 23rd, 2016
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
CubeSats: Big Goals, Tiny Package
Andrew Klesh,
Chief Engineer for Interplanetary Small Spacecraft,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2016
12:00am
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4/24
12:00am
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12:00am
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4/24
12:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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6:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 24th, 2016
8:00am
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11:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Shaerzadeh Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, April 25th, 2016
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
"Synthetic circuits for feedback and detection in bacteria"
Victoria Hsiao,
Bioenigineering PhD Candidate,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
A new proof of the decomposition theorem
Brad Drew,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Perception as an inference problem
Bruno Olshausen,
Professor,
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and School of Optometry,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Planet Nine from Outer Space
Michael Brown,
Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor and Professor of Planetary Astronomy,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Inflatable Dark Matter and the Diphoton Resonance: New Phenomenology with a Simple Lagrangian
Sam McDermott,
SUNY Stony Brook,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High-level verifiable robotics
CMS Seminar
Hadas Kress-Gazit,
Associate Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Investigating Filaments of the Bacterial Cytoskeleton by CryoEM
Jan Lowe,
Structural Studies Division Head and Group Leader,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Dynamic Materials: From Cephalopods to Shapeshifters
Alon A. Gorodetsky,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of California, Irvine,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Building and controlling complex interconnected systems
Nikolai Matni,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Increased Brain Uptake of Targeted Nanoparticles by Adding an Acid-Cleavable Linkage Between Transferrin and the Nanoparticle Core
Andrew Clark,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Davis group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Interactive and Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Human Machine Collaboration
Been Kim,
Research Scientist,
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Eigenvalue Attraction and Disordered Hamiltonian Density of States
Ramis Movassagh,
IBM,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Crystalline coatings for gravitational-wave test masses
Garrett Cole,
President CRYSTALLINE MIRROR SOLUTIONS LLC,
CRYSTALLINE MIRROR SOLUTIONS LLC,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Continuous tensor networks for quantum fields: Scale invariance and loss of information along the RG flow
Guifre Vidal,
Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
The complexity of the classification problem for multiplier algebras of Nevanlinna-Pick space
Michael Hartz,
Mathematics,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
How Can Software Promote Inquiry?
Prof. Matt Turk,
Univ. of Illinois,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research
Discovery and Development of Halaven, a Fully Synthetic Macrocyclic Ketone Analog of Halichondrin B, for the Treatment of Late-Stage Breast Cancer and Soft-Tissue Sarcoma
Frank Fang,
Dr., Ph.D., Vice-President,
Process Research & Development,
Eisai, Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Computing Isomorphisms between Finite Fields using Elliptic Curves (pt 1 of 2)
Anand Kumar Narayanan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Circadian Rhythm Networks in Health and Disease
Steve Kay,
Adjunct Professor ,
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences,
Univeristy of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Constraints on Planetesimals from their Thermal Evolution
Shigeru Wakita,
Division of Theoretical Astronomy,
NAOJ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Formal Behavioralism
Daniel Diermeier, Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy and Emmett Dedmon Professor of Public Administration, University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
8:00am
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5/3
5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Constant-round Interactive-proofs for Delegating Computation
Omer Reingold,
Samsung Research America,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry
Some C*-algebras which are coronas of non-C*-Banach algebras.
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The dynamics of changing winter temperature extremes
Andrew Rhines,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Huseyin Gulen, Purdue
Topic to be Announced
Huseyin Gulen,
Associate Professor of Finance, Krannert School of Management, Purdue,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: John Cochrane, Stanford University
A new approach to monetary policy
John Cochrane, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Guaranteed Non-convex Learning Algorithms through Tensor Decomposition
Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Anima Anandkumar,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
U.C. Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Kristin Persson,
Staff Scientist ,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Driving Synthesis by Oxidation
Jean-Philip G. Lumb,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Cold War Geographies and the Making of the Indian Space Program
Asif Siddiqi,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry
Representations of multiplier algebras of Nevanlinna-Pick spaces
Michael Hartz,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Waterlook,
Thursday, April 28th, 2016
10:00am
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3:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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(CANCELLED) Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
(CANCELLED) Seth Guikema,
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Small RNAs Fighting Genome Invaders: From Bacteria to Mammals
Alexei Aravin,
Assistant Professor of Biology,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Lubin-Tate Deformation Spaces and $(\phi,\Gamma)$-Modules
Anne Carter,
Mathematics,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
String Theory and the CMB
Liam McAllister,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Cornell University,